thou know her to be evil; for those that are faulty cannot endure to be taxed, but will seek to be avenged of thee; and those that are not guilty, cannot endure unjust reproach. As there is nothing more shameful and dishonest than to do wrong, so truth itself cutteth his throat that carrieth her publicly in every place. Remember the. divine saying, he that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life. Discretion. Hume.

was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature.

a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies

it by its friends. Theodoret and others, who gravely defend the monkish miracles, and the luminous cross of Constantine, by their zeal without knowledge, and devotion without Discretion, have hurt the cause of Christianity more by such friendship than the apostate Julian by his hostility, notwithstanding all the wit and vigour with which it was conducted.

OPEN wealth and reputation shall, at least in

PEN your mouth and purse cautiously; and your

repute, be great.

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are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as Discretion; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, Learning is Pedantry and Wit Impertinence; Virtue itself looks like Weakness; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.

HOSOEVER is afraid of submitting any Question,

W civil or religious, to the test of free Discussion, is

more in love with his own opinion than with Truth.

DISEASES, desperate grown,

By desperate appliance are relieved,

Or not at all.

EN of the world hold that it is impossible to do a

Motive; for the sake of admiration, if for no grosser, more tangible gain. Doubtless they are also convinced, that, when the sun is showering light from the sky, he is only standing there to be stared at.

Bissembling. - Shakespeare.

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Dissembling Courtesy! how fine this tyrant
Can tickle where she wounds!

Disputation. - Socrates.

thou continuest to take delight in idle Argumentation,

but wilt never know how to live with men.

Family Dissension.

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what stranger can you expect attachment, if you are at variance with your own relations ?

ISSIMULATION, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not, artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful. The best and the most safe policy is, never to have recourse to Deception, to avail yourself of Quirks, or to practise low Cunning, and to prove yourself in every circumstance of your life equally upright and sincere. This system is naturally that which noble minds will adopt, and the dictates of an enlightened and superior understanding would be sufficient to insure its adoption.

Dissimulation. Lord Bacon.

Dwisdom, for it asketh a strong wit and a strong

ISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy or

heart to know when to tell truth, and to do it: therefore it is the weaker sort of politicians that are the greatest Dissemblers.

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Dacility. Manlius.

DOCILE Disposition will, with application, surmount
every difficulty.
Bogmatism.

WHERE

- Hume.

men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.

STRANGE state of being! (for 'tis still to be)
Senseless to feel, and with seal'd Eyes to see.

Breaming.- Novalis.

WE are near waking, when we dream that we dream.

META

Breams. Colton.

ETAPHYSICIANS have been learning their lesson for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in Dreams, except the Judgment, which alone is suspended, and dormant ? This faculty of the mind is in a state of total inefficiency during Dreams. Let any man carefully examine his own experience on this subject, and he will find that the most glaring incongruities of time, the most palpable contradictions of place, and the grossest absurdities of circumstance, are most glibly swallowed down by the Dreamer, without the slightest dissent or demurrage of the Judgment. The moment we are wide awake the Judgment reassumes her functions, and shocks us with surprise at a credulity that even in sleep could reconcile such a tissue of inconsistencies.

HY spirit within thee hath been so at war,
Andinus math so bestirr'd thee in thy Sleep,
That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow,
Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream:
And in thy face strange motions have appear'd,
Such as we see when men restrain their breath
Un some great sudden haste.

I may trust the flattering truth of Sleep,

I'My presage news hand:
My bosom's lord sits lightly on his throne,
And, all this day, an unaccustom'd spirit
Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
I dreamt, my lady came and found me dead,

(Strange Dream! that gives a dead man leave to think)
And breath'd such life with kisses in my lips,
That I reviv'd, and was an emperor.

Ah me! how sweet is life itself possest,

When but love's shadows are so rich in joy?

DREA

REAMS are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain Fantasy;

Which is as thin of substance as the air;
And more inconstant than the wind.

Breams. Dryden.

REAMS are but interludes which Fancy makes.

DREAM

When monarch Reason sleeps, this mimic wakes;

Compounds a medley of disjointed things,

A mob of cobblers, and a court of kings:

Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad;
Both are the reasonable soul run mad:
And many monstrous forms in Sleep we see,
That neither were, nor are, nor e'er can be.
Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind,
Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

Bress.- Sir Jonah Barrington.

RESS has a moral effect upon the conduct of mankind.

any gentleman

Surtout, soiled Neckcloth, and a general negligence of Dress, he will, in all probability, find a corresponding disposition by negligence of address.

Cowper.

WE sacrifice to Dress, till household joys

And comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry,

And keeps our larder lean. Puts out our fires,

And introduces Hunger, Frost, and Woe,

Where Peace and Hospitality might reign.

Shakespeare.

WHAT, is the Jay more precious than the Lark,

Because his feathers are more beautiful?

Or is the Adder better than the Eel,
Because his painted skin contents the eye?
O, no, good Kate: neither art thou the worse
For this poor Furniture, and mean Array.

Bress.

IN the Bible the Body is said to be more than Raiment. But many people still read the Bible Hebrew-wise, backward: and thus the general conviction now is that Raiment is more than the Body. There is so much to gaze and stare at in the Dress, one's eyes are quite dazzled and weary, and can hardly pierce through to that which is clothed upon. So too is it with the mind and heart, scarcely less than with the body.

PROCESSIONS, Cavalcades, and all that fund of gay

Frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tirewomen, mechanically influence the mind into veneration : an emperor in his night-cap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

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Browning. Shakespeare.

LORD! methought what pain it was to drown!
What dreadful noise of Water in my ears!

What sights of ugly death within mine eyes.
Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks,
A thousand men, that fishes gnawed upon.

Drunkenness. Shakespeare.

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THOU invisible spirit of Wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee-Devil! O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, revel, pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

Drunkenness. Charles Johnson.

O WHEN We swallow down

Intoxicating Wine, we drink Damnation;
Naked we stand the sport of mocking fiends,
Who grin to see our noble nature vanquish'd,
Subdued to beasts.